Winners Announced - European Seal of e-Excellence 2010

March 8, 2010 - PRLog -- The Winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2010, the prestigious Europe-wide Award honouring leading European ICT and digital media companies with an excellent track record in innovative marketing of digital products and services, were announced today at CeBIT in Hannover Germany.

Awarded annually by the European Multimedia Forum (EMF) and its partner associations, the European Seal of e-Excellence is widely known for promoting companies in the digital field with
•  Innovative products and services, and
•  Excellent marketing practices to promote them.

By focusing on the marketing aspects of digital products and services, the European Seal of e-Excellence helps winners promote themselves in the global market place.

Margaretha Mazura, EMF Secretary-General, declared: “We are proud to be able to award again 33 winners from 12 different countries.” Dr. Mazura emphasized: “The ICT sector has - so far - globally better resisted to the recent financial and economic downturn. Innovation, quality and customer-orientation are at the core of its comparative success, as is amply demonstrated again by the success stories of this year’s Seal winners. Europe has very strong technological assets in ICT, which can be leveraged through strong marketing actions into world class products and services. The community of Seal winners constitute by now a prime showcase of excellence of innovation marketing that demonstrates to the world what ‘we can’.”

List of Winners
Platinum Seal of e-Excellence
Agency9 – SE
Core-Competence - DE
digital publishing - DE
Greentube I.E.S. - AT
Indie Group – BE
Instruxion – BE
MATERNA – DE
Prezi.com - HU
Virtualware - ES

Gold Seal of e-Excellence
CreativIT – ES
CyberWatcher – NO
excentos – DE
Inxmail – DE
Medici Internet - DE
MTA SZTAKI – HU
Norse Solutions – NO
Reading Room - UK
SEOlytics - DE

Silver Seal of e-Excellence
24/7 Real Media – UK
eRevMax – UK
euroSolutions - DE
Gizer.net. – ES
GRAAL - GR
jaron - DE
optivo - DE
posterXXL – DE
RichCast – BE
Telnic - UK
TOPEX – RO
TWT Interactive - DE
Typotex Electronic Publishing House – HU
Werft22 - CH
wunderloop media services - LU

BACKGROUND
Awarded Annually Since 2003
The European Seal of e-Excelence has been awarded annually since 2003 by the European Multimedia Forum (EMF) and its Partner Associations at an Award Ceremony at CeBIT, the European trade show for the ICT industry. A jury composed of representatives of the Partner Associations selected the winners on the basis of an open application process.

Sponsors
The EMF would like to thank its sponsors:
-   DigitalTender (www.digitaltender.com), for facilitating the online tendering and winner    designation process;
-   Phillips Internet Consulting (www.phillips-internet.com), for facilitating the Seal e-marketing    campaigns with their Trackoo application;
The Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (ICEX & State Secretariat for Telecommunications and the Information Society), for hosting the Seal Award Ceremony at CeBIT;
GAIA and The Basque Government, for hosting the Seal reception at CeBIT.

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The European Multimedia Forum is the main European Trade Association promoting the competitiveness of the converging digital media industries in the global market place.